Chapter 303 Cultural Differences

The small sample of Dieji's desktop was stitched into a number of patterns in Wang's hand. Even Shen Kuo didn't expect that his brother not only knew everything about astronomy and geography; he didn't know anything about architecture and furniture. Looking at Li Jie's stunned appearance, Shen Kuo patted him: "Silly boy, what are you still doing? Why don't you call me sir?"

"Oh, oh." Li Jie agreed and hurriedly got up to salute the king,

"Hahaha, now you are convinced." Wang Zong asked with a smile,

"If I guess correctly, is this prince the king of Zhennan mentioned by Mr. Shen?" He had guessed it when he came in from the king's side. After saluting, he asked Shen Kuo,

Li Jie was unwilling to go to the king's side. The main reason was that he heard that Wang's side was a young man in his early twenties. He could be a prince at such an age. Presumably, he must have some background. I'm afraid that he would be arrogant and might not be able to do great things. When he saw the king today, his mind had changed his mind. After listening to the king talking about architecture, Speaking of this furniture, I can't help admiring it. If the person in front of me is really as he infers as the king of Zhennan, the low profile next to the king is also different from the general king and grandson,

Shen Kuo smiled and said, "Of course, I said it was my brother..."

"At the side of the king, I heard Brother Shen mention Mingzhong many times, so I have a sense of acquaintance. It happened that I was going to stay in Yangzhou for a few days to help Brother Shen a little favor, and I just came to visit him." Wang said with a smile,

"Your Majesty, I didn't expect you to ask so much. I'm just a craftsman. How can I let you come in person~" Li Jie's face turned red and said in an awkward tone,

"It's fine. It's nothing for me to get to know each other. The door of my Zhennan Palace will always be open for you." Wang said with great magnanimity,

Li Jie was infinitely grateful in his heart. Wang was very sincere when he saw this Li Jie, and didn't say much about invitation. He got up and said goodbye. Li Jie wanted to keep them, but he thought that one of these two people was a prince and the other was a soldier in Yangzhou. How could he stay in his humble house more? Wang side saw his embarrassment and said, "I If you want to invite Mingzhong to work in the royal palace, you can also discuss it with your family. After all, you want to go to Yongzhou with me. The mountains and rivers are far away. It's not too urgent. You can make a decision after you think about it.

"Yes." Li Jie lowered his head and answered, but he had already thought about it in his heart. Although the prince is young, he is not an ordinary person. He has studied hard for so many years, but he has no chance to use it. If he can follow the king, he may be able to realize many of his ideas on construction, but Wang is also right. After all, if you want to go a long way, you have to follow your family anyway. Let's discuss it,

"Hey, I said, brother, I really didn't see that you are really erudite... It's just that I don't understand something. You know so much, why do you have to pay so much attention to a craftsman?" Coming out of Li Jie's house, Shen Kuo bypassed the street corner and looked back to see that Li Jie could no longer be seen. He turned his head and looked at Wang, who was one head taller than him, and asked,

"What's wrong with the craftsmen? We workers have power. Hey, we workers have power." He sang a few words powerfully, but Shen Kuo couldn't stand it. He covered his ears and said, "You guys are singing too badly. I'm seriously asking you."

"Hahaha..." Shen Kuo, who is stingy, doesn't understand the music king of the Song Dynasty. Besides, this thing can't be understood by reading words. After laughing, Wang said, "Brother Shen, you don't know anything. Yongzhou needs people from all walks of life to build. Just, my king is covered with iron and can hit a few nails. Besides, I am all miscellaneous, and nothing may not be profound. Therefore, professional things should be left to professional people to do.

"Well, you are all reasonable. I think how your miscellaneous science solves my fake gold case, and what kind of cause and effect do you say about heredity and chickens."

Wang was stunned. Shen Kuo hadn't forgotten this for such a long time: "Haha, that's called genetics. Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the mouse's son can make holes. This is called genetics."

Shen Kuo suddenly realized: "Oh, I know. You mean that the Gentiles learned badly from their ancestors." "Hahaha~" Wang sang laughed. This is a serious but abusive word,

The two returned to the government office. Shen Kuo changed his official uniform and ordered people to prepare two sedan chairs. He took the official and the king to sit on the sedan chair and returned to Cross Street for the second time. This time, they went to the house where they found fake gold. Shen Kuo waved his hand into the yard and ordered the servant to wait in place.

The king looked at the yard with his hands behind his back. There was a water tank on the east side of the courtyard wall. The king looked around the water tank. Suddenly, he found a few ores in the corner behind the water tank, and there was also some quicklime. He pointed to something on the ground and said, "These are taken to the government office"

"Why did the prince ask us to bring some stones?" The servants whispered in the yard while the king entered the room. After a while, one servant after another came out of the room with a jar of wine, "Why do our two bosses even bring back the wine?" He hugged the wine jar and gathered together with the servants in the courtyard and muttered,

"We can't even understand Shen's army in this case. Can this little prince do it?" Several servants looked at the direction of the main room and muttered in a low voice,

The things have been almost collected. Wang Bian and Shen Kuo picked up the sedan chair and returned home. At this time, Kejun and Han Derong also came back. They reported that there is really a workshop in Yangzhou that can get a large amount of copper in the near future.

Shen Kuo sent a business trip to "invite" the shopkeeper of the workshop to the government office. The shopkeeper was afraid. After all, buying and selling copper products in the Song Dynasty had to go through the government. The king asked him to come. The purpose was very simple. He wanted to ask whether he had sold copper to other customers, especially foreigners, the source of copper and how Shen Kuo, the owner of the workshop, dealt with it. Wang Bian didn't care, but the owner of the workshop said, "Although the workshop of Caomin is not big, there are many businessmen who come and go every day. What does this buyer look like? Master, you have to let me recognize it."

This is also reasonable, not to mention that Wang also wants to see what the ancestor-like foreigner in Shen Kuo's mouth looks like,

He didn't have much kung fu. The Gentile who made fake gold was brought up by the servant. This man was indeed, as Shen Kuo said, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and seemed to be forty or fifty years old. Shen Kuo pointed to the blonde foreigner and asked the workshop owner that the one who bought copper, and the workshop owner nodded repeatedly: "Master, Others may not be able to remember. How can I not remember this?

The foreigner was also stunned when he saw the person who sold him copper, but soon said something loudly to the lobby. Shen Kuo looked at Wang and seemed to be asking what to do now. Wang listened to a few words, which roughly meant: "I didn't break the law. What are you doing?"

"Shut up." This sentence is the most familiar. It is often spoken in American dramas. The Gentiles really shut up and stared at the yellow-skinned and black-haired man in surprise.

Shen Kuo was also shocked by Wang's special foreign words. He turned his head and looked at Wang and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Shut up." Wang explained,

Shen Kuo covered his mouth and thought what was wrong with the king. I asked. He actually asked me to shut up. Good boy, you are the prince and now you are to help me try the case. I'll be patient first and settle accounts with you when I drink later.

Wang looked at Shen Kuo and stopped covering his mouth with his hand, and said with a smile, "I'll let him shut up."

"Oh." Only then did Shen Kuo breathe a long sigh of relief, and some of the servants standing on both sides bowed their heads and laughed secretly.

Wang asked the foreigner in English, "Where did you come from? What's your name? How old are you?"

When the foreigner heard Wang's question in a language he could understand, a surprise immediately appeared on his face. He muttered a lot. The king frowned and interrupted from time to time to let him speak slowly. The man said for half an hour, and Wang finally understood some clues. This man's name is Tule, from Greenland, this place. Fang was close to the polar regions on the edge of North America at that time, but because the weather has been getting hotter and hotter in the past one or two hundred years, the hunting and sailing habits of Greenlanders have been changed. They crossed the southern end of the Arctic Ocean and migrated from west to east. The last group of people arrived in the Americas, forming an urban culture, where they were the most popular. And copper handicrafts, this man named Thule, in order to get more copper across the sea, finally came to the Song Dynasty,

Shen Kuo couldn't understand what he said to Wang. He looked left and right for a while and looked at Tule. Wang asked, "Then why don't you admit that you fake gold?"

Thule said blankly, "I didn't say that I made real gold. They just asked me to make gold, but I didn't make gold."

This cultural difference is simply too big. Wang Bian took a long breath. Thule suddenly smiled and said, "We make copper into imitation gold handicrafts, but we don't sell the price of gold. It's a good handicraft. How can you think I made fake gold?" When it comes to the king, the man is right, but after all, copper is a restricted item. He raised his face and said, "Your place is your place, and copper is not allowed to be bought and sold in our Song Dynasty."

"oh~no" Thule sighed regretfully and regretfully. Shen Kuo took a look at Thule and said helplessly to Wang, "Look, look, he is starting to make trouble again."

Wang said to Tule with a smile, "If I plead to the government and let you go, would you like to work with me?"

Tule replied blankly, "I don't know. The boat I took is gone, and I can't go back to my hometown now. You Song won't allow me to buy and sell copper, and I don't know what else I can do." After he said a sigh, he lowered his head,

"He pleaded guilty. He pleaded guilty, didn't he?" Shen Kuo saw Tule's expression for the first time. He asked Wang side excitedly,

"Brother Shen, let me tell you, this person doesn't know whether he can buy or sell copper to imitate gold. I think it's better. It's not surprising that he doesn't know, not to mention that he doesn't really sell fake gold. Why don't you give him to me?" Wang looked at Shen Kuo and waited for Shen Kuo to nod,

Shen Kuo thought for a moment and said, what does it mean to give it to him? It's probably for me to hand over this person to him for disposal: "Give it to you, and people can also send it to you. Then you have to tell me how he made the fake gold."

Wang side smiled and turned his head to Thule and said, "You, you have violated the laws of our Song Dynasty. According to our laws, we will expel you and throw you into the sea and let you die."

After hearing this, Thule waved his hand in panic and said, "No, no way."

"However, I have guaranteed you from the government. From now on, you are my slave. In the future, you have to listen to me. As long as you nod, I can take you away." Wang said with a serious face,

After Wang said that, he looked at Thule. Thule thought for a while. If he was thrown into the sea like this, he would definitely not be able to go back. Even if he went back with no penniless, he still have to be a slave. In this case, he agreed. After all, this Song man guaranteed himself. Thinking of this, he nodded wildly like rice,